Help me understand how to use ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject!

Arne_Gelfert — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 22:17:10 GMT

In a separate post a while back, I was hoping to solicit some guidance on how to use the geoprocessing widget. After some distractions, I'm now returning to this effort.

I have built a few functioning Python tool(boxe)s with ArcGIS Pro now. I understand how to interact with the map layout in Pro to programmatically create PDF of my map and modify the map for conversion to PDF. I am not completely sure how that related to what ESRI calls a "staged layout template." But that has to be similar to what I'm doing. First, I want to replace my aprx reference to a project file with one to a web map.

Memorable ESRI Quote #1

For advanced printing scenarios, you ... can use the ConvertWebMapToMapDocument (for ArcMap) or ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject (for ArcGIS Pro) functions in the Python arcpy module.

So I am trying to leverage

arcpy.mp.ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject(<webmap_as_json>, <some_wonderful_pdf>)‍

There is no simple way of generating some sample JSON describing your web map that you could use to test your script. So after publishing a script as a geoprocessing service that takes <webmap_as_json> as an argument, how do I pass the json ?

I can hook Web AppBuilder's Geoprocessing widget into my geoprocessing services but it's needing that JSON to feed on.

So I'm inclined to think I'm headed down the wrong path.

Questions:

Which widget, if any, can call geoprocessing services and pass along the JSON?
Is a "staged layout template" just a PAGX file sitting in a folder registered with my hosting server?

Re: Help me understand how to use ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject!

Arne_Gelfert — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 13:07:33 GMT

Doing a post-mortem on this before I forget....So I dropped my efforts to use the OTB GP widget, instead, I created a GP tool in ArcGIS Pro (using Python) and

ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject

which allows you to create an in-memory APRX and then massage it to your heart's delight - iterate over maps or layers, choose a pre-configured template, and export that to PDF.

To consume that, I created a custom widget and in it, I did something like this:

 printFromJSON : function (){
            
            var currentMap = this.map;
            
            var printTask = new PrintTask();
            var params = new PrintParameters();
            params.map = currentMap;
            
            var webMapAsJSON = printTask._getPrintDefinition(currentMap, params);
            var webMapAsJSONasString = JSON.stringify(webMapAsJSON);
            var file;
            var gpParams = {"Web_Map_as_JSON" : webMapAsJSONasString,
                             "PDFOutputFile" : file};
            gp.submitJob(gpParams, this.completeCallback, this.statusCallback);
            },

//Note the "var file" in there‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍. It has to match any output parameters you've configured in your GP tool.‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

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Help me understand how to use ConvertWebMapToArcGISProject!

Memorable ESRI Quote #1

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